2666: A Novel [Paperback]

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER
ANEW YORK TIMESBEST BOOK OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: TOP TEN

THE POSTHUMOUS MASTERWORK FROM ONE OF THE GREATEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL MODERN WRITERS (JAMES WOOD,THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW)

Composed in the last years of Roberto Bola?o's life,2666was greeted across Europe and Latin America as his highest achievement, surpassing even his previous work in its strangeness, beauty, and scope. Its throng of unforgettable characters includes academics and convicts, an American sportswriter, an elusive German novelist, and a teenage student and her widowed, mentally unstable father. Their lives intersect in the urban sprawl of SantaTeresaa fictional Ju?rezon the U.S.-Mexico border, where hundreds of young factory workers, in the novel as in life, have disappeared.

ROBERTO BOLA?Owas born in Santiago, Chile, in 1953, and grew up in Chile and Mexico City. His first full-length novel,The Savage Detectives, received the Herralde Prize and the Romulo Gallegos Prize when it appeared in 1998. He died in Blanes, Spain, at the age of fifty.

A masterpiece...the most electrifying literary event of the year. Lev Grossman, Time

Indeed, Bola?o produced not only a supreme capstone to his own vaulting ambition, but a landmark in what's possible for the novel as a form in our increasingly, and terrifyingly, postnational world. Jonathan Lethem, The New York Times Book Review

A work of devastating power and complexity, a final statement worthy of a master. Adam Mansbach, The Boston Globe

Bola?o's most audacious performance . . . It is bold in a way that few works really are--it kicks away the divide between playfulness and seriousness. Henry Hitchings, Financial Times (UK)

The opening of2666had me in its thrall from those first few pages . . . For all the precision and poetrl“U